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  title info:
    title: Beyond the Second Law
    sub title: Entropy Production and Non-equilibrium Systems
  name:
    name part: Dewar, Roderick C.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lineweaver, Charles H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Niven, Robert K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Regenauer-Lieb, Klaus.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 434 p. 99 illus., 19 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The Second Law, a cornerstone of thermodynamics, governs the average direction of dissipative, non-equilibrium processes. But it says nothing about their actual rates or the probability of fluctuations about the average. This interdisciplinary book, written and peer-reviewed by international experts, presents recent advances in the search for new non-equilibrium principles beyond the Second Law, and their applications to a wide range of systems across physics, chemistry and biology. Beyond The Second Law brings together traditionally isolated areas of non-equilibrium research and highlights potentially fruitful connections between them, with entropy production playing the unifying role. Key theoretical concepts include the Maximum Entropy Production principle, the Fluctuation Theorem, and the Maximum Entropy method of statistical inference. Applications of these principles are illustrated in such diverse fields as climatology, cosmology, crystal growth morphology, Earth system science, environmental physics, evolutionary biology and technology, fluid turbulence, microbial biogeochemistry, plasma physics, and radiative transport, using a wide variety of analytical and experimental techniques. Beyond The Second Law will appeal to students and researchers wishing to gain an understanding of entropy production and its central place in the science of non-equilibrium systems – both in detail and in terms of the bigger picture.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives on entropy production -- Applications to non-equilibrium systems.
  note: edited by Roderick C. Dewar, Charles H. Lineweaver, Robert K. Niven, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear Dynamics
  classification: QA76.9.M35
  classification: 620
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Understanding Complex Systems
  identifier: 9783642401541
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40154-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 131202
    record change date: 20151116134905.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-40154-1